Musk Shahi
Musk Shahi opens with ylang-ylang and damask rose in combination — ylang's characteristically rich, banana-cream-rubber quality alongside the rose's full, honeyed floralcy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Floral80
- White Floral60
- Rose60
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Damask Rose
- Jasmine
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readMusk Shahi opens with ylang-ylang and damask rose in combination — ylang's characteristically rich, banana-cream-rubber quality alongside the rose's full, honeyed floralcy. The opening is warm and dense, immediately floral and slightly heavy.
Jasmine joins in the heart, adding its own indolic warmth and pushing the floral density higher. Three prominent florals layered together with no fresh or green counterpoint makes this an uncompromising floral construction.
Musk in the base is the only non-floral element, providing a clean, skin-close foundation that keeps the heavy florals wearable. The result is a dense, warm floral — intimate and close-sitting, with projection that stays near the skin despite its richness.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
